In reply to a post by Woolwich:

In reply to a post by Whitehall11:

Yah - Pheasant is right it's this link:https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/community-fibre-partnerships

No quite. All I can do there is find out I have FTTC. I can't follow any links to tell me whether or not I can apply for a voucher. I've defiantly checked before (I can't). So maybe the page is down until the new scheme come into place.

So to be clear, its a page which checks your postcode and tells you if you're in an OFCOM Region where you can apply for a voucher.

Maybe I'll look again next week but I'd hoped to reply this.

Sorry Woolwich - I misread the question.

The link here from dect: https://gigabitvoucher.culture.gov.uk/ is where you'll be able to find out from later next week if you are eligible for the new vouchers. Once this launches, and if you confirm you're area is eligible, you can go back onto the OR Site and apply for a CFP (OR will then identify this as a voucher eligible scheme)

OK, I'll wait a week.

Meanwhile, nobody would run a CFP without vouchers, would they?

In reply to a post by Woolwich:

I'll wait a week.

Do you know if you're in an OFCOM postcode 2 or 3 area?

In reply to a post by dect:

Do you know if you're in an OFCOM postcode 2 or 3 area?

Urban area, very large city. Is that 1 or 3? Either way I know we're not eligible and pretty sure weren't under the old scheme.

But Openreach say we should set up a scheme and get vouchers.

In reply to a post by slimj:

I added it to ISPReview, you can find it in this post here

Check if your post code area is in the text file via the link in this post

In reply to a post by Woolwich:

Meanwhile, nobody would run a CFP without vouchers, would they?

Why not - if the price is low enough (which it may be in an urban area with fibre nearby), and if the number of participants prepared to share the cost is large enough.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

In reply to a post by Woolwich:

Meanwhile, nobody would run a CFP without vouchers, would they?

Why not - if the price is low enough (which it may be in an urban area with fibre nearby), and if the number of participants prepared to share the cost is large enough.

To give you all some context - the quote i received from Openreach is as follows:
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On receipt of the required amount of voucher pledges and validated voucher codes, Openreach will deliver a fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) infrastructure - which has the capability to give download speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
The cost to bring fibre to this project community is £
Core community – 116 Premises Initial Estimate – £58886
Cost Per Premise – £507.64


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Obviously, the more properties, the lower the cost! Our CFP is progressing nicely with vouchers, but if you can't have them, this is much cheaper than FTTPoD haha

Is £58886 the target for how many vouchers you need to get pledged?

£507.64 per property passed is in the ballpark for a commercial rollout - so at first this sounds like a bit of a wheeze to get government money.

OTOH, maybe the build cost is substantially higher than this, and Openreach has already factored in their commercial contribution.

Much like the "FTTPoD Cost Tracker", a "CFP Tracker" would be very useful intel. Cost per property for CFP is obviously a fraction of oD, especially since the oD price hikes.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Is £58886 the target for how many vouchers you need to get pledged?

£507.64 per property passed is in the ballpark for a commercial rollout - so at first this sounds like a bit of a wheeze to get government money.

OTOH, maybe the build cost is substantially higher than this, and Openreach has already factored in their commercial contribution.

Correct, so this value is what we need as a community to find - i have no idea what the total cost of the project is but OR do mention that they fund some of it. We are in a rural area, but some of the properties (of the 116) i would argue are more commerically viable.


Through this co-funded approach, we’ll cover all costs for this project that fall within our own commercial threshold. This means that the figures estimated below represent the remaining cost that your community would need to contribute to enable us to deliver an FTTP network.